'It is in Valparaiso that I started to photograph, pacing up and down the hills day and night. The little girls going downstairs was the first magical photo I took. A good image emerged from a state of grace. Grace arises when one is freed from conventions, free like a child when he discovers reality for the first time. The trick is therefore to compose the frame' - Sergio Larrain

Magnum Photos is a photographic cooperative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities.